Even from afar knowing far less about life on the ground in China than many of your other readers it seems that President Xi must know something about a dark future.
It looks to me that China is heading towards the North Korean model.
Again this can’t be about a cold virus.
Perhaps Shanghai might rise from the ashes as it’s own city state.
Something big is brewing.
Some sort of pending collapse that Zero CoVID is supposed to cover up at least through November is my only, admittedly not that well informed, hunch.
There’s no other way to explain the inexplainable now. I’m in Shanghai now to witness self-induced dystopia. Last night 4/22) there was mass social media revolt about a censored (404) video. Maybe this link still work if you want to see it, until it’s gone too.
Even from afar knowing far less about life on the ground in China than many of your other readers it seems that President Xi must know something about a dark future.
It looks to me that China is heading towards the North Korean model.
Again this can’t be about a cold virus.
Perhaps Shanghai might rise from the ashes as it’s own city state.
Something big is brewing.
Some sort of pending collapse that Zero CoVID is supposed to cover up at least through November is my only, admittedly not that well informed, hunch.
The evidence does hint strongly that something is afoot which is not public information.
There’s no other way to explain the inexplainable now. I’m in Shanghai now to witness self-induced dystopia. Last night 4/22) there was mass social media revolt about a censored (404) video. Maybe this link still work if you want to see it, until it’s gone too.
https://vd3.bdstatic.com/mda-ndm46g2yf9ur3c0j/360p/h264_delogo/1650596261132178643/mda-ndm46g2yf9ur3c0j.mp4?vt=1&cd=0&did=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&logid=3044195290&vid=10152739213907360834&utm_source=wechat_session&utm_medium=social&utm_oi=814316947679375360
If you mean the "Sounds of April" piece, we included a link to it with a very rough English translation in today's article here: https://austrianchina.substack.com/p/tragedy-and-hope-in-shanghai